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What Would Jesus Do? Nothing.

The virtue of charity consists in voluntarily giving your own money, not in forcing others to hand over theirs.

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Jamie Whyte

April 4, 2013 3:47 p.m. ET

Over the Easter weekend, the leaders of several British Christian denominations, including the Methodists and the Church of Scotland, condemned the government's welfare reforms, which come into force this week.

Among other changes, receipt of the incapacity benefit will be conditional upon being incapacitated; no family will be able to claim benefits in excess of the U.K. average household income (£26,000 a year); and the children of housing beneficiaries will be obliged to share bedrooms—though no more than two to a room....